Paralex Open IE Demo

Goals

Showcase Paralex open-domain question answering in the Open IE Demo.

Demos

• Paralex-OpenIE Demo (Updated Oct 1)
• Paralex QA Research Demo (Updated Oct 16)
• Paralex Paraphraser Demo (Updated Oct 16)

Work Log

Oct 17

• Completed:
  • Created UI demo mockups and received feedback from Stephen and Oren:
    • UI Mockups
  • Chose example query set to satisfy constraints:
    • Non-trivial to parse
    • Handled well by paralex
    • Answerable in the triplestore
  • Example queries are:
    • Foods from Africa?
    • Is there any cure for cancer?
    • Are there any famous people from Detroit?
    • How fast are cheetahs?
    • Sources of Antioxidants?
    • Is Obama married and to who?
  • Updated scoring function features and training

Oct 9

• Analyzed improved paraphrase template scores from Tony
• Discussed UI layout with Stephen:
  • Show list of answers as in current demo.
  • Clicking an answer should reveal paraphrases that lead to the answer.
  • Clicking a paraphrase should expand to show sentences that contain triples used to derive the answer.

Current Goals:

• Find set of example questions with high-quality paraphrases by Oct 11
• Mockup results UI by Oct 16